Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. Halluminate benchmarks AI models on financial tasks to find where they fall short and builds simulated training environments aimed at those gaps. Founded in
The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming. The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business before a brief stint at SpaceX’s Starlink communications network in 2024. His experiences convinced him that there was untapped potential for computers in space. “When I was at SpaceX, I tried to
WASHINGTON — In eastern Kentucky, Libby Honeycutt listened upstairs to the sound of glass breaking below as floodwaters tore apart her house. Twenty-six miles to the south, Ronald Conley rescued his dogs from his elevated house with a pontoon boat. Jennifer Campbell heard the screams from across the river of a neighbor desperate for rescue.s
The streamflation trend continues: Disney is once again asking Disney+ subscribers to pay even more for the streaming service. Disney+ Premium, the plan with without ads, is increasing from $18.99 to $21.49/month, effective Wednesday (Sept. 23) for new subscribers, per a Bloomberg report. Existing customers will see the new pricing on their next monthly bill.
The Netherlands’ ASML is possibly the biggest name in lithography, using its machines to etch patterns onto silicon wafers inside a computer chip factory known as a fab. Fellow Dutch company Morphotonics is smaller and works in a different corner of the same field: nanoimprint lithography, or NIL, a process used to manufacture the displays
The T.J. Martell Foundation raised more than $3.2 million for cancer research at its annual New York Honors Gala on Sept. 15 — the most the event has raised in more than two decades. Red Light Management founder Coran Capshaw was presented with the Lifetime Music Industry Award by his longtime friend Dave Matthews, and
